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Review Of Advocacy And Awareness For Archivists, Erin Hurley
Review Of Advocacy And Awareness For Archivists, Erin Hurley
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Kathleen Roe's book Advocacy and Awareness for Archivists.
Digital Humanities And Library Labor: Resources, Workflows, And Project Management In A Collaborative Context, Virginia A. Dressler
Digital Humanities And Library Labor: Resources, Workflows, And Project Management In A Collaborative Context, Virginia A. Dressler
Virginia A Dressler
Special Issue Introduction: Labor In Academic Libraries, Emily Drabinski, Aliqae Geraci, Roxanne Shirazi
Special Issue Introduction: Labor In Academic Libraries, Emily Drabinski, Aliqae Geraci, Roxanne Shirazi
Publications and Research
Labor in academic libraries has reemerged as an area of critical interest in both academic library and archives communities. Librarians and archivists have long worked to counter the diminishment of their labor within an academy that centers the concerns of disciplinary faculty who may, in turn, see knowledge workers as a footnote to the scholarly enterprise. Recent years have seen a renewed attention to the social and economic conditions of our work, as researchers turned to topics such as affective labor in libraries and archives, attitudes toward labor unions, and information work under capitalism (Sloniowski 2016; Mills and McCullough 2018; …
More Than Things, Scarlet Galvan
More Than Things, Scarlet Galvan
Scholarly Papers and Articles
The often invisible labor of serials, technical services, metadata, and electronic resources workers sits in the space between required and preferred, assessment and surveillance. Although libraries and information workers did not explicitly create the systems many of us live in, we are responsible for their everyday functioning. In many ways the narratives from technical services to the library are centered in objects: item counts, COUNTER stats, door counts, discovery, and other transactional data. And yet, we are stewards and maintainers, innovators and storytellers of the countless ways these objects are experienced. How can we help our colleagues understand the outreach …
The Labor Of Affordability: Are We Replacing One Inequitable System With Another?, Justin White
The Labor Of Affordability: Are We Replacing One Inequitable System With Another?, Justin White
University Library Publications and Presentations
Textbook affordability has become a goal for a broad range of advocates of affordable higher education. It is seen as an achievable way to make a potentially huge impact. However, the labor required to implement textbook affordability is a major factor that often goes uncommented upon in discussions of barriers to this implementation, which often focus on a lack of funding or training. We should be aware that the same structures that determine how labor is rewarded or even acknowledged are still in place, and how our academic relations of production affect perception of both OER and the labor involved …